Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-07-19
OREGON NEWS.
Everything Of General Interest in a
Condensed Form.


A Swede named Harry Stevenson
was killed at the Clatsop mill.
Painters are killing off large mum
beers Of sheep in Canas prairie.
Mrs. Ii. NJ. Searles was fatally in
jured by a runaway near Albany.
John Rottner, q Portland saloon
keeper, committed suicide by drown
ing.
The cornerstone OF the new |. o.
o. F. temple at Baker City has been
laid.
Ashland has an industry in the
shape Of canned cooked yehison es-
Enlistment.
A pOstoifce has been established al
Lorraine, Lame county, with William n.
Grow rs postmaster
John Larsen and p. +. Peterson,
fishermen for the Point Adams Com
pany, upset at Wyeth river and both
men we're drowned.
The steamer Alaskan recently made
the run from Portland To Astoria in
the unprecedented time OF four hours
and forty-six minutes.
Railway postal service has been or
dered on the line from Dundee juno
ton TO Airtie, and Mr. Piieier, OF Al
bany, has been appointed to the line.
Capitalists have made proposition
O'build and operate combined wooden
and worsted mills at Albany, il the
citizens would raise bonus Of $40 900.
Two Cinnamon were mining on APP.
plegate, near Steamboat, when the
bank unexpectedly caved and threw a
log on one of them, holding him fast
He died before he could be released.
Elvin Miller killed white deer on
Brushy Ball, says Curry county pa
per. The hoofs are also white. These
skins are very rare, and pass among
the Indians for big money
| The last of the series of games be.
tween the Portland and Willamette
baseball clubs for the league cham
pionship was won by the tirst-named
club, the score being 3 to 2.
The Cinnamon are very belligerent
along the railroad, says Jacksonville.
paper. While having some kindbf cere-
monies the other day strange China
man tried to ring in and was summa-
rlly killed. He was first shot and then
stabbed.
Several weeks ago an account of the
mysterious disappearance of John
Hawk, from Coburg, Lane county, was
published. 1t was firmly believed that
he had been murdered. He at last,
however, turns up alive and well in
Eastern Oregon.
The coal mines at Newport. Coos
county, are again being worked and
there is a demand for miners. All an.
plying are employed and numbers are
beng sent from California. 1t is the
only mine exporting coal from Oregon
Mt present The shutdown was caused
by litigation which is now settled.
The officers employed on the steamer
Joseph kellogg have watched with in
terest log which lies floating in The
Willamette slough 1t is very large
log and its proprietor is large hog
no matter how rough it is, the hog
keeps its balance. The log is about
two miles from land, and the passing
boats keep it we'll supplied with eata-
bles, Tor this poor lone hog has been
there nearly month, aud has learn
to distinguish the Joseph Kellogg
whistle from the other steamers, and
stands ready To receive his lunch
which the steward waits TO serve.
Recently, for the first time in the
history OF Clifton, religious services
were held there. DIR. r. l.. Elliott,
pastor OF the Unitarian church, was
visiting there, and the citizens hastily
built a "meetin' house" 1t was in The
cannery warehouse. A lot of empty
salmon boxes were used to make walls
openings being left for door in the
rear and windows at the side. In the
front the boxes were piled SO high as
70 form semi-circle, and directly in
front OF this the pulpit was erected,
also OF salmon boxes. Boxes likewise
served MS seats. The congregation
numbered sixty-three men, women and
children.
Mr.. Doolittle, OF Silverton. reports
that while hunting in. about House
Mountain rock he jumped up a bull.
snake twenty-five feet long. His
snakeship was basking in the sun in a
little prairie, and, when aroused by
Mr.. Doolittlc it raised its head abort
10 feet and Missed wickedly at him
Inc hunter was considerably taken
back, but quickly lodged behind some
pushes and began shooting at the rem
tile with his Winchester. The third
shot broke the snakes neck. ahort
three inches back of the head, and in
its dying struggles it coiled about a
llttie mr. and bent it to the ground sew
erai times. A few well-directed blows
WIN club ended the fight, and by
tearing portion of his white sbir,
INTO strips he was enabled to get tho
length, as Love given The
laea tnat there are no big snakes in
oregon Is disputed by Mr. Doolittle's
ma, and that these reptiles live bieb
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